So you heard all about the PM's travels at the start of this segment. He's expected to be out of office for a couple more weeks, so we asked him if the Cabinet is on a standstill until he comes back, even though there are pressing matters to be discussed.
He explained that it's within the acting PM's purview whether he wants to call one:
Hon. John Briceno, Prime Minister
"If the acting Prime Minister feels the need to have a Cabinet meeting, he knows he can have a Cabinet meeting. So far, he has not said anything to me as to whether or not he believes there should be a meeting at this moment. Before I left, we worked from about nine to five o'clock trying to clear out all the issues that we had in front of us. So, that is a decision for the acting Prime Minister. But, maybe what is important and what we are overlooking, do you remember how many Cabinet meetings took place in the past thirteen years of the U.D.P., without then Prime Minister Barrow? One, one meeting in thirteen years. And, I have been reliably informed that when that happened half of the the Cabinet did not show up in protest of the then Acting Prime Minister. Here I am now one year and a half and you are trying to make an issue that there are no Cabinet meetings because I am not in the country."
